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Monday, June 6, 2022
Image Comics Shipping from Diamond Distributors for June 8, 2022
Marvel Comics Shipping from Diamond Distributors for June 8, 2022
Comic Books, Magazines and Books from Diamond Distributors for June 8, 2022
DC Comics Shipping from Lunar Distributors for June 7, 2022
Aquaman Andromeda #1 (Of 3)(Cover A Christian Ward), $6.99
Aquaman Andromeda #1 (Of 3)(Cover B Bryan Hitch), $6.99
Aquaman Andromeda #1 (Of 3)(Cover C Anand RK), AR
Aquaman Andromeda #1 (Of 3)(Cover D Christian Ward Foil Variant), AR
Batman #124 (Cover A Howard Porter), $4.99
Batman #124 (Cover B Gabriele Dell’Otto Card Stock Variant), $5.99
Batman #124 (Cover C Amy Reeder Pride Month Card Stock Variant), $5.99
Batman #124 (Cover D Filya Bratukhin Card Stock Variant), AR
Batman #124 (Cover E Jock Card Stock Foil Variant), AR
Batman Beyond Neo-Year #3 (Of 6)(Cover A Max Dunbar), $3.99
Batman Beyond Neo-Year #3 (Of 6)(Cover B Christian Ward Card Stock Variant), $4.99
Batman Killing Time #4 (Of 6)(Cover A David Marquez), $4.99
Batman Killing Time #4 (Of 6)(Cover B Kael Ngu Card Stock Variant), $5.99
Batman Killing Time #4 (Of 6)(Cover C Ben Oliver Card Stock Variant), AR
Dark Crisis #1 (Of 7)(Cover A Daniel Sampere Wraparound Variant), $5.99
Dark Crisis #1 (Of 7)(Cover B Greg Capullo/Jonathan Glapion/Dave McCaig Card Stock Variant), $6.99
Dark Crisis #1 (Of 7)(Cover C Jamal Campbell Card Stock Variant), $6.99
Dark Crisis #1 (Of 7)(Cover D InHyuk Lee Card Stock Variant), $6.99
Dark Crisis #1 (Of 7)(Cover E Bruno Redondo Card Stock Variant), $6.99
Dark Crisis #1 (Of 7)(Cover F Mahmud Asrar Team Card Stock Variant), AR
Dark Crisis #1 (Of 7)(Cover G Dan Schoening Card Stock Variant), AR
Dark Crisis #1 (Of 7)(Cover H Steve Beach Card Stock Variant), AR
Dark Crisis #1 (Of 7)(Cover I Greg Capullo/Jonathan Glapion/Dave McCaig Card Stock Foil Variant), AR
Dark Crisis #1 (Of 7)(Cover J Jim Lee Homage Card Stock Variant), AR
Dark Knights Of Steel #7 (Of 12)(Cover A Dan Mora), $3.99
Dark Knights Of Steel #7 (Of 12)(Cover B Ejikure Card Stock Variant), $4.99
Dark Knights Of Steel #7 (Of 12)(Cover C Rafael Albuquerque Card Stock Variant), AR
DC Pride 2022 #1 (One Shot)(Cover A Phil Jimenez), $9.99
DC Pride 2022 #1 (One Shot)(Cover B Joshua Sway Swaby Wraparound Variant), $9.99
DC Pride 2022 #1 (One Shot)(Cover C Jen Bartel Foil Variant), AR
DC Pride 2022 #1 (One Shot)(Cover D Jen Bartel Card Stock Variant), $9.99
Deathstroke Inc. #8 (2nd Printing Cover A TBD)(Shadow War), $3.99
Earth-Prime #5 (Of 6) The Flash (Cover A Kim Jacinto), $5.99
Earth-Prime #5 (Of 6) The Flash (Cover B Photo Card Stock Variant), $6.99
Flashpoint Beyond #2 (Of 6)(Cover A Mitch Gerads), $3.99
Flashpoint Beyond #2 (Of 6)(Cover B Xermanico Card Stock Variant), $4.99
Flashpoint Beyond #2 (Of 6)(Cover C Jason Fabok Card Stock Variant), AR
Flashpoint Beyond #2 (Of 6)(Cover D Ivan Reis Card Stock Variant), AR
Justice League #75 (2nd Printing Cover A Daniel Sampere & Alejandro Sanchez), $5.99
Legion Of Super-Heroes Five Years Later Omnibus Volume 2 HC, $150.00
MAD Magazine #26, $5.99
Monkey Prince #5 (Of 12)(Cover A Bernard Chang), $3.99
Monkey Prince #5 (Of 12)(Cover B InHyuk Lee Card Stock Variant), $4.99
Monkey Prince #5 (Of 12)(Cover C Michael Cho Card Stock Variant), AR
Multiversity Teen Justice #1 (Of 6)(Cover A Robbi Rodriguez), $3.99
Multiversity Teen Justice #1 (Of 6)(Cover B Stephanie Hans Card Stock Variant), $4.99
Multiversity Teen Justice #1 (Of 6)(Cover C Stephen Byrne Pride Month Card Stock Variant), $4.99
Multiversity Teen Justice #1 (Of 6)(Cover D Blank Card Stock Variant), $4.99
Multiversity Teen Justice #1 (Of 6)(Cover E Bengal Card Stock Variant), AR
Multiversity Teen Justice #1 (Of 6)(Cover F Marco Failla Card Stock Variant), AR
Nubia Queen Of The Amazons #1 (Of 4)(Cover A Khary Randolph), $3.99
Nubia Queen Of The Amazons #1 (Of 4)(Cover B Jae Lee Card Stock Variant), $4.99
Nubia Queen Of The Amazons #1 (Of 4)(Cover C Kevin Wada Pride Month Card Stock Variant), $4.99
Nubia Queen Of The Amazons #1 (Of 4)(Cover D Alitha Martinez Card Stock Variant), AR
Poison Ivy #1 (Of 6)(Cover A Jessica Fong), $3.99
Poison Ivy #1 (Of 6)(Cover B Warren Louw Card Stock Variant), $4.99
Poison Ivy #1 (Of 6)(Cover C Kris Anka Pride Month Card Stock Variant), $4.99
Poison Ivy #1 (Of 6)(Cover D Dan Mora Team Card Stock Variant), AR
Poison Ivy #1 (Of 6)(Cover E Nick Robles Card Stock Variant), AR
Poison Ivy #1 (Of 6)(Cover F Frank Cho Card Stock Variant), AR
Poison Ivy #1 (Of 6)(Cover G Warren Louw Card Stock Foil Variant), AR
Robin #13 (2nd Printing Cover A Roger Cruz & Norm Rapmund)(Shadow War), $3.99
Static Season One HC, $29.99
Tales From The DC Dark Multiverse II TP, $24.99
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Thursday, June 2, 2022
Review: Horror Movie "X" is Some Good Old American Crazy
TRASH IN MY EYE No. 35 of 2022 (No. 1847) by Leroy Douresseaux
X (2022)
Running time: 106 minutes (1 hour, 46 minutes)
MPA – R for strong bloody violence and gore, strong sexual content, graphic nudity, drug use, and language
WRITER/DIRECTOR: Ti West
PRODUCERS: Jacob Jaffke, Harrison Kreiss, and Kevin Turen
CINEMATOGRAPHER: Eliot Rockett (D.o.P.)
EDITORS: David Kashevaroff and Ti West
COMPOSERS: Tyler Bates and Chelsea Wolfe
HORROR
Starring: Mia Goth, Jenna Ortega, Brittany Snow, Kid Cudi, Martin Henderson, Owen Campbell, Stephen Ure, Simon Prast, and James Gaylyn
X is a 2022 horror film written and directed by Ti West. The film focuses on six people who are filming a pornographic movie on an elderly couple's rural Texas property, unaware of the danger that is so near to them.
X opens in Texas, 1979. Aspiring pornographic actress, Maxine Minx (Mia Goth), embarks on a road trip with five other people who plan to film a porno movie entitled, “The Farmer's Daughter.” The other five are Maxine's boyfriend, the film's producer, Wayne Gilroy (Martin Henderson), and fellow actors, Bobby-Lynne (Brittany Snow), and the African-American lead, Jackson (Kid Cudi). The film's director and cameraman is RJ Nichols (Owen Campbell), with his girlfriend, Lorraine (Jenna Ortega), tagging along to assist. Wayne's plan is to shoot an adult film for the booming theatrical pornography market and for the burgeoning home video market.
The group arrives at a reclusive farm that belongs to an elderly couple, Howard (Stephen Ure), and his wife, Pearl (Mia Goth). Wayne has rented the couple's guest house where he intends to shoot his pornographic movie. When the elderly couple discovers what Wayne and his friends are doing in the guest house, the killing starts.
One thing that really surprises me about X is how good the acting is. The cast really gives good performances, and each performer has at least a few chances to shine individually. Martin Henderson basically makes his character, Wayne Gilroy, into a pastiche or parody of Oscar-winning actor and famous Texas citizen, Matthew McConaughey. Mia Goth plays dual roles, Maxine and also Pearl (which I suspected before I saw the credits). Goth is quite good as Maxine, creating subtle shades and textures for the character. Although Pearl does have her moments, I don't like the old “psycho-biddy” as much as I like Maxine.
Anyone familiar with director Tobe Hooper's classic American film, The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974), will see that it obviously influenced director Ti West's X. The latter is not a copy of the former, however; X mainly has a similar physical setting (deep in rural Texas) and is set close to the same time as the earlier film (the 1970s). At the center of the story of both films is a mysterious farmhouse that radiates unease.
I see elements of Alfred Hitchcock's legendary film, Psycho (1960), an obvious influence on Tobe Hooper's film, if for no other reason than having similar origin narratives. Watching X, films like The Last House on the Left (1972) and Boogie Nights (1997) also come to mine.
That is where the similarities end, more or less. The Texas Chain Saw Massacre was like a folk tale, a regional tale of terror handed down across generations. It is also an allegory representing the state of an America coming out of the 1950s and 1960s – post-industrial and post-Vietnam.
X is specifically about the characters, what they want, and what they are willing to do it. The characters are conniving and self-absorbed, as best exemplified by Wayne. They are clueless and lack self-awareness, especially Bobby-Lynne. They are willing to lie, cheat, and steal to get what they want, best exemplified by Howard and Pearl, who ultimately kill for what they want.
At the heart of X is the battle of youth versus aging as a theme – Howard and Pearl against the pornographers. That is not the only observation I made about the couple. I don't know Ti West or his politics, but I see Howard and Pearl as bigoted, bitter, resentful, and jealous. Unfortunately, they have lived long enough to see their kind of people, their beliefs, their culture, and their society become irrelevant, if not outright forgotten. If they lived today, Howard would be the angry old cracker, and Pearl would be the snarling old biddy at a Trump rally. Howard and Pearl are MAGA, but their enemies aren't “Mexican rapists” and trans kids. Their enemies are people still in the prime of their sexual power and prowess, who flaunt their bodies and their sex acts. Howard hates men who can get an erection that won't kill them, and withered-old Pearl resents young women, with their firm bodies that attract horny men. Yes, I do feel a little sorry for them … very little.
In the end, however, I do want to recommend X as a horror movie. Ti West has made the kind of wet, hot, American slaughter-fest of a film that American filmmakers make best. I will say that although it feels a bit longish, X's story also feels a bit underdeveloped. I think a horror movie about a group of people making a porno movie on a farm belonging to possible serial killers could have been more … or maybe I expected more or something different. Still, I like X just because, for all its obvious influences, it seems so crazy and so different.
7 of 10
B+
★★★½ out of 4 stars
Wednesday, June 1, 2022
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Wednesday, June 1, 2022
Comics Review: "RED SITHA #2" is Superb
RED SITHA #2
DYNAMITE ENTERTAINMENT
STORY: Mirka Andolfo and Luca Blengino
ART: Valentina Pinti
COLORS: Chiara Di Francia
LETTERS: Jeff Eckleberry
EDITOR: Nate Cosby
COVER: Junggeun Yoon
VARIANT COVER ARTISTS: Mirka Andolfo; Paulina Ganucheau; Valentina Pinti; Lesley “Leirix” Li; Gracie the Cosplay Lass and Jim Donnelly (cosplay)
32pp, Color, $3.99 U.S. (June 2022)
Rated Teen+
Sitha is a female character that debuted in Red Sonja Volume 6 #1, and she was created by comic book superstar Mirka Andolfo. Red Sonja accepted a bounty to bring a girl named “Sitha” to a broker who would send her home to her father. The girl, however, became attached to Sonja and called her “Mother” and their adventures began.
Now, Sitha is “Sitha the Red,” and she is the star of her own comic book series, Red Sitha. It is written by Andolfo and Luca Blengino; drawn by Valentina Pinti; colored by Chiara Di Francia; and lettered by Jeff Eckleberry. The series focuses on Sitha the Red, the adopted daughter of Red Sonja, now a decade older and a bounty hunter in the Kingdom of Aquilonia. That is until someone from her past involves her in a suicide mission.
Red Sitha #2 opens in the Eastern Desert. Sitha had met Kildrick, the priest who is apparently her brother, and he says that their parents have been kidnapped. Now, the two have entered the magical oasis kingdom of “Azul-Amon.” The kingdom is in a state of jubilation, but it is also the place where they may learn the whereabouts of the “Living Necropolis.” This is where Shefru-Sobek, the man who kidnapped their parents, are holding them.
Sitha and Kildrick must find “the Sand Astrolabe,” a magical artifact that will show the way to where their parents are being held. Finding it, however, turns out to be a bit more complicated than they thought – comical – but complicated.
THE LOWDOWN: In July 2021, Dynamite Entertainment's marketing department began providing me with PDF review copies of some of their titles. One of them is Red Sitha #2.
After two issues, I must say that Red Sitha is a really good comic book – a freaking good comic book. Writers Mirka Andolfo and Luca Blengino have created a Red Sonja-like comic book series, but without the “mythology” (baggage) of Sonja. Thus, the series and the title character feel fresh, although she and her adventures are set in the world of Sonja.
Artist Valentina Pinti is delivering some killer art and the result is rich storytelling of shifting moods and attitudes. Pinti makes Red Sitha feel more like a swashbuckling adventure with Persian flourishes instead of being more sword and sorcery. Colorist Chiara Di Francia's bright colors strike the right mood, even making the story feel like a sexy romp. Jeff Eckleberry's letters gently carry the story along on its surreal path.
I am pleasantly surprised by Red Sitha, and I hope it is around for awhile. Dear readers, I highly recommend that you get in on this series now.
I READS YOU RECOMMENDS: Fans of Red Sonja and of Mirka Andolfo will want to try Red Sitha.
[This comic book includes “Dynamite Dispatch” May 2022, which features an interview with writer Jordan Clark.]
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Reviewed by Leroy Douresseaux a.k.a. "I Reads You"
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